Camera operator

The camera operator or swivel the camera moves in the film art according to the specifications of the cameraman or the director.

For two reasons it may be that position when recording a movie:

• The cameraman wants to focus on other things, like for example on light setting, rhythm or special effects
• The design-related characteristics of the camera or the filming location require specialized training. Tags for this purpose are given as underwater photography and Steadicam.

While camera operators in the art of film are common even today, the job title photo assistant has prevailed in photography.

Camera operators were against widely used in the early days of photography; they used the camera, changed the photographic plates and mixed the emulsions presented the big and heavy cameras on tripods and set if necessary the focus.

Outdoor scenes related in the first decades of photography often a large retinue of staff, as is common with larger film productions today. The photographer picked out only the subject and the camera position while the camera operators unwound all further technical process. It was not until the late 19th century, the custom prevailed sporadically that the name of the camera operators were called in connection with the prepared photographs. The large portrait studios employed the mid-19th century, many camera operators who largely independently customized the recordings according to the specifications of the photographer.

• Film career
• Camera